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chlorine

[klawr-een, -in, klohr-] / ˈklɔr in, -ɪn, ˈkloʊr- /
NOUN
element
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Researchers propose that sunlight striking this mixture produced highly reactive chlorine.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

The pungent smell of death emanates from the Caracas morgue, an odour that thousands of liters of donated chlorine cannot mask.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

To manage the odor, city officials said Lineage is testing the use of chlorine dioxide as a deodorizer as food is removed and packed into trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026

The chlorine smell only makes him more so.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

To produce dicarbon, they started with molecules consisting of two carbon atoms and four chlorine atoms and used a laser to strip off the chlorines, leaving only dicarbon.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022

The trans isomer, formed when the chlorines are positioned at a 180° angle, has very different properties from the cis isomers.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019



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